Johnson& #39;s defence that covid ventilator or personal protective equipment contracts were offered on special terms or with special favours because of the urgent needs of the situation falls apart on the most cursory of examinations. Companies who were in the right line of...

business, even when being proactive in offering their services, were simply spurned or ignored. Only those with the right political connections or ideolgical stance on Brexit profited, even when they had no previous track record in supplying equipment that was desperately needed.

& #39;ideological& #39;!

The only conclusion that can therefore be drawn, on the basis of the evidence now in the public domain, is that what has been going on falls incontestably into the category of political corruption.